1054 deaths

Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054

Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054

Atiśa (c. 982–1054 CE) was a Buddhist religious teacher and leader from Bengal. He is generally associated with his body of work authored at Vikramaśīla Monastery in Bihar. He was a major figure in the spread of 11th-century Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism in Asia and traveled to Sumatra and Tibet. Atiśa, along with his chief disciple Dromtön, is regarded as the founder of the Kadam school, one of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In the 14th century, the Kadam school was supplanted by the Gelug tradition, which adopted its teachings and absorbed its monasteries.

German 11th-century Benedictine monk

King of Pamplona from 1034 to 1054

2nd emperor of the Lý dynasty

Count of Leuven from 1033 to 1054

French nobleman (died 1054)

thumb|260px|Denier, struck under Bernold, Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580)|Bishop of Utrecht. thumb|right|260px|A relief from St. Peter's Church, Utrecht|Saint Peters (St Pieterskerk), Utrecht, founded by Bernold in 1039.

Hammadid ruler

Japanese court noble and poet

French noble

member of the Swabian line of the Elder House of Welf. She was also the ancestress of the younger House of Guelph

Ghaznavid statesman

King of Dublin